Search & Reunion, Find Birth Parents or Adopted Child

Every day more and more adoptees are using DNA to find birth families. There are three types of testing available that may help. You can do a mitoc

Steve Belshaw, 54, was placed for adoption via a newspaper ad when he was an infant. He had known he was adopted since he was about eight years old

Marion and James met in Catford, South London when they were just seven years old. As they got older, they started dating and fell in love. A year

William Wolfers, 92, was reunited with his biological family in the Town of Evans on Friday. William grew up in Buffalo knowing almost nothing abou

Making the decision to search for your birth family is the first and truly biggest step of the process. Once you make the decision to search you ma

My need to find my birth family had nothing to do with my parents, and here’s why: My whole life I’ve been the girl, teen, woman who wo

My son’s love for his birth family doesn’t detract from his love for me. This is possibly one of the most important things I needed to grasp be

Since the dawn of intercountry adoptions in the United States post-1945 intercountry adoptions have almost exclusively been “closed.” Children

If you are an adoptee who has searched for and found one or both of your biological parents, you are likely uncertain about how to approach your in

The year was 1981. Ronald Reagan had just been sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, Prince Charles announced his engagement to Lady

I always knew that I was adopted. I can’t remember when my parents told me, it was just always a piece of my identity. “My name is Vale

All adoptee reunions carry emotional weight. Unfortunately not all reunions end in happy tears and warm embraces like on TV. Every adoptee situatio

A story of triumph and love. That is the story of Joel De Carteret. One morning, when he was five years old, upon his awakening went looking for hi

I had always been curious growing up. My parents never hid from me the fact that I was adopted, and they tried to answer what they could whenever I

Dear Mom and Dad, I love you more than words could ever say. I am thankful and grateful for the life you gave me. It must take a lot to raise anoth

Success is a wonderful word, especially when it concerns an adopted person seeking information about her biological parents. After a very long sear

A time may arise during your search for family that has you ponder the need for help. It certainly did for me. I had taken an Ancestry DNA test and

In the city of Lima, Peru, Mary Ellen solemnly promised Jessica, her adoptive daughter’s birth mother, to reunite mother and daughter. That promi

I recognize that through an adoption journey, the adopted child is the most important person in the adoption triad, and the one with the least amou

We all love a beautiful reunification story, right? It feels good to see adoptees finding their long-sought after birth families, then the first gl